Disclaimer:I do not own any of the digimon in this story or the elements within them, they belong to Akiyoshi Hongo, I do however own the oc's Kensuke Rainer, Kasumi Shika, Maki Hiko, Mikato Kagami, Shizuka Kagami,Takuto Hiko, Mikato, Shizuka, Grey and Amaterasumon, also to note thier will be some slight crossovers with other anime's in this fic, I take no credit for them either and thier will be quite a few of them so I will not be mentioning the creators since thier's alot, on that note let's begin.
Chapter 14: The Secret Plan of Evil, Protect the Digi-Cores.
The next day came soon enough, this time Ken made sure to bring a backpack with all the supplies he would need as Maki had suggested, and upon returning to the park found that the ninja twins were the first to arrive. "What kept you, party too much last night in your new outfit?" asked Mikato with a chukle, Ken shook his head, all three had thier digimon contained in thier digivices.
"Let's not bring that up again for both our sakes." he muttered, as thoughts of piledrving her into the ground came to mind.
"So where are the others?" asked Shizuka as Ken shrugged.
"Don't look at me." he replied as soon enough Maki showed up, followed by Grey who seemed abit displeased.
"So, I see that she's not coming after all." he muttered, Maki sweatdropped.
"Well I heard her dad had to be taken to a hospital after being knocked out by that wacked out digimon's thread attack, so maybe it's better this way..." however the sound of a limo pulling up and a door opening was heard, all of them glanced back towards the park entrance and saw Kasumi in her school uniform walking towards them with a backpack, but she still had a sour look on her face.
"You weren't going to leave without us were you?" she asked in a serious tone, Ken and Maki sweatdropped as they had never seen or heard her so serious before.
"No of course not." said Maki waving his hands, Grey sighed.
"In any case it's time we head out, our objective this time is to ascertain what the enemy is planning..." Grey started before he was cut off by Ken.
"So in otherwords, we're not going to simply power ourselves up this time, cause that's pretty much all we did on our last feild trip." he muttered, Grey shook his head.
"So, your digimon got stronger and you dealt with a renagade dominion leader, what more could you ask for?" he asked, Ken didn't say a word for a few moments.
"Just don't send us up against Mega's so quickly again or i'll slug you insides until they burst open." he said after a minute of silence had passed, Grey sighed and opened the portal in the shed.
"Let's go i'm coming with you all this time." he said which suprised them as they lept into it and it closed.
Meanwhile in the digital world, inside the castle in the dominion of darkness lower chambers, Takuto and Dorumon descended a staircase with Takuto holding a torch to light the way.
"Master are you sure we should be coming down here?" asked Dorumon.
"Well, SkullDarkKnightmon did say he had something to show us." Takuto replied as eventually they came to a large door, it took them some effort to open it, but once they did a blinding flash of light overtook them for a moment causing them to cover thier eyes. "Oh God...Natural..." Takuto stopped when the lights died down. "...light..." when he and Dorumon looked around they found themselves inside of a large laboritory of some kind, SkullDarkKnightmon walked up to them as they looked around and soon saw machine's with claws working on a large demon like digimon.
"Impressive isn't it?" he asked, Takuto was speechless.
"What is it though?" he asked back, SkullDarkKnightmon chuckled.
"It's our secret weapon, Parallelmon." Takuto was confused.
"Parallelmon?" SkullDarkKnightmon nodded.
Parallelmon: A mega level digimon that has the power to transcend time and space and capture digidestined and tamers from other demensions, this one however is artifical.
"Yes, we were finally able to begin construction once the cores from the dominions of holy and primary were brought back to us, once we get the cores from the dominions of the sky, and the hazard zone, we'll be able to activate him to go seek out the prime light sources from the prime digital worlds." Takuto was confused by this.
"Prime digital worlds?" he asked, SkullDarkKnightmon nodded.
"Yes, long ago I made contact with someone who is not of this world, who showed me various other digital worlds all connected together like an atom, our demension is but a small one in a larger scheme of things but there are a group of demensions which stick out compared to the rest known as the "prime realms" also known in your human world as the ones where the "anime" shows took place." Takuto was amazed by this.
"I see, he said, SkullDarkKnightmon nodded and the two left a group of robot digimon known as Datamon's to continue the work while they headed back up to the throne room.
Datamon: an ultimate level digimon that messes with computers and other gadgets, but thier not to nice around other digimon or people.
"Sir, I've got a report to make!" came a voice when the two entered the room and were approached by a large metallic mummy holding a large gun.
"What is it SkullMummymon?" asked SkullDarkKnightmon.
SkullMummymon: This digimon is a metallic version of the regular mummymon, his Steel Snake Bandage and Ghastly Steel Blasts are nothing to take lightly.
"A scout just informed us that those digidestined have returned to this world." Takuto groaned.
"Want me to go confront them again?" he asked, SkullDarkKnightmon shook his head.
"No, you need to stay here cause your Ipad is the key to activating Parallelmon." he then motioned to three other digimon. "SkullRapidmon, SkullKimeramon and SkullVermillionmon come here!" he demanded, three digimon stepped out of the shadows, each one had dark metallic bodies and evil dark colored metal skulls on thier heads.
"You called for us my leige?" asked SkullVermillionmon.
SkullVermillionmon: this digimon is corrupted version of Vermillionmon, he's not very strong with attacks but his defence is second to none among ultimate level digimon.
"What kind of varment's we shooting today!" asked SkullRapidmon with a western accent, SkullDarkKnightmon sighed.
"Have you been watching those human world cartoons again?" he asked, causing his subordinate to sweatdrop.
SkullRapidmon: This digimon is pretty fast, and due to his corruption can go toe to toe with both other versions of himself with ease.
SkullKimeramon didn't do anything but laugh like a lunatic. "Are you sure we should let him out of his cage?" asked SkullMummymon.
SkullKimeramon: a digimon who's made up of several different digimon but was then covered in metal, already undead and crazy his metallic upgrade makes him strong enough to take on mega's.
"Ok, here's the deal you four." started SkullDarkKnightmon as all but SkullKimeramon kneeled. "I need you to split into groups of two, one group needs to go to the dominion of the sky, the other to the hazard area." the three who kneeled gasped.
"The hazard area?" asked SkullMummymon.
"Ain't that the territory of that fraggin varment Megidramon!" SkullDarkKnightmon sweatdropped again at SkullRapidmon's speech and nodded.
"Yes, we need one digicore from each area to finish the "Parallelmon Project." it won't be easy as Azulongmon and Megidramon gaurd the cores, but if you use your heads you can prevail." he said. "Also be catious as the digidestined have returned from the real world to hinder our plans, and they defeated SkullDokugumon." he said.
"She was the weakest one among us, no offense sir." said SkullVermillionmon, SkullDarkKnightmon nodded.
"None taken, whoever goes to the Hazard area take SkullKimeramon with you as he's the only one of you who can stand a chance of standing up to Megidramon, the other two should head for the dominion of the sky, that is all." he said walking away with Takuto.
"Ok how we gonna do this?" asked SkullRapidmon before the other two quickly spoke.
"One, two, three not it!" they both yelled, SkullRapidmon shook his fist at them.
"You fraggin varments better hope I don't make it back alive!" he yelled as they ran out the castle doors, he turned around and looked at SkullKimeramon. "Come on let's go." he said, SkullKimeramon continued laughing as they headed out towards the hazard area. "If I survive this, i'm gonna kill those two so bad." thought SkullRapidmon as he was going to have to deal with his partners laughter for the whole trip.
Meanwhile in the Forest Dominion at Ravemon's Temple a portal opened and from came the group who were greated by Ravemon. "Welcome back my friends, it's been a while." he said, Grey nodded. "Oh Grey you've decided to join them this time?" Grey nodded.
"Yes, it seems that things are getting out of hand at least according to what i've been seeing on my digivice." he said before looking around. "So has anything happened here lately?" Ravemon nodded with a sad face.
"Yes, we received word that both the primary village and the temple of the gods were both penatrated a few days ago by evil digimon who stole digicores from Magnadramon and Goddramon, the garudain's of those area's, and we fear the dominion of the sky and the hazard area could be next." Grey nodded.
"Sounds to me like we need to get our butts in gear then." he said turning to the digidestined. "Alright we'll split up from here. Maki, Kasumi, Mikato, Shizuka go to the dominion of the sky." the four were abit suprised by this.
"Why should we all go there? Things won't be even." Grey shook his head.
"Actually it will be since you three all have ultimate level digimon and the ninja girls use the DNA method so they need to remain together at all times." he said, Mikato groaned.
"I still wish we could get our partners to digivolve on thier own." she muttered, Shizuka sighed.
"It's ok sis, besides this way our digimon becomes tougher right?" Mikato had to nod.
"Good, me and Ken will head to the Hazard area then." Ken tensed up abit, but nodded.
"Alright, fine." he muttered as Grey summoned Mailbirdramon and the two climbed on it's back before taking off towards the south, Ravemon nodded.
"So I need to provide you all with transportation to the east." he said leading them to a large portal made of water that a few Ninjamon and Kogamon were seen chanting around. "Normally i'd let you use our kites, but the dominion of the sky is quite aways from here so you'll need to use this." the digidestined looked skeptical.
"Anyone else feel confortable with this?" asked Maki, Mikato shrugged and calmly walked into it, Shizuka followed her. Kasumi nodded and walked in after then and finally Maki sighed and walked through as well, suprisingly they didn't feel wet at all when they came out the otherside and found themselves in a mountain like region, but what scared Maki and Kasumi was that they were extremely high up and on cliff paths that were etched onto the sides of the mountains with clouds around as far as the eye could see.
"One wrong step here, and we're done for." said Kasumi, Mikato and Shizuka calmly called out thier digimon. "I'm amazed you two can be so calm right now." she said.
"Well we're used to high places, i'm sure mr. killjoy is as well." said Mikato, as they walked along. "So are you going to let out your digimon or not?" Maki and Kasumi did so albeit relunctantly after a few minutes.
"Dang we're pretty high up!" Coronamon demanded, Lunamon nodded.
"I don't were in the full part of the sky domonion yet either..." she said, causing the others to turn to her. "I've heard stories about the Dominion of the Sky, they say that the main area is a group of clouds held together by Azulongmon's energies and no digimon regardless of thier weight can fall from them." the others seemed abit skeptical at first.
"Well this is the digital world, so I wouldn't be suprised in the least if walking on clouds was normal." said Mikato as the pressed forward along the cliff's path, eventually they did infact see a group of clouds shaped in the form of a tower off in the distance clumped together as if this "structure" was protecting something, the only problem was it did not seem like entry was possible.
"Uh, Lunamon you got any idea's on how we get inside?" asked Liollmon, Lunamon shook her head.
"To be honest...no i don't..." the others nearly facefaulted.
"Well at least we found the place." said Shizuka trying to remain optimistic. At that moment however a stairway of clouds seemed to errect itself between the tower and them, Maki put his foot out to "lightly step" on one it and found that it was indeed solid enough for them to walk on.
"Guess we take these up." he said, with that the group headed up the cloud stairs and into the tower not knowing that SkullMummymon and SkullVermillionmon had arrived on the scene as they entered the tower.
"Alright we found the tower, starting mission." said SkullMummymon cocking his weapon and preparing it for battle, the two ran up the clouded stairway, but just as they reached the end of it the last few clouds disappeared out from underneath SkullVermillionmon's hind legs causing him to almost fall, but his parter was able to pull him up barely. "You need to go on a diet you know that?"
"Shut up, you Solid Snake wannabe, let's just get the core and get it to the boss." SkullVermillionmon replied as they headed into the tower.
The inside of the tower was a long spiral real staircase made of majestic and rainbow colored stainless glass that stretched around to an opening at the top, Shizuka and Kasumi couldn't help but marvel at the stairs as they climbed, but Mikato and Maki didn't care.
"Will you two knock it off?" asked Mikato as they had already made it halfway up and didn't know that they were being followed.
"This definitely makes up for my birthday being ruined, if I could get my dad to make me a staircase like this to my room i'd feel great." said Kasumi, Maki sighed.
"So we were right, you were moody over what happened at your birthday party." he said as they continued climbing up the stairs.
"Who wouldn't be, not only that but there was more to it..." said Kasumi. "He found out about Lunamon shortly after everyone had left." this made the rest of the group stop. "He wanted me to get rid of her, but I said no and went into my room and locked the door." Maki sighed.
"You do realise that he probably knows your gone and when we return to the real world he probably will come looking for you right?" Kasumi nodded to this as Maki shook his head.
"Do me and Kasumi belong in this digidestined group, I mean our pasts are pretty much bad because of digimon...because of my father's fetish for them anyway." Maki thought as they came out the top entrance into a throne like room where several pilliars with shiny digital cores rested ontop of each one of them, a roar was heard before a gigantic clear body like snake digimon with a blue mask and four eyes appeared from the sky and looked at them as his beard flowed like it was being blown by the wind. "Holy..." was all Maki could say as Kasumi's digivice went off.
Azulongmon: one of the four digimon soverigns, the soverign of the east and keeper of the elements of hope and light, he attacks with Aurora Force and Lightning Whip.
"So he's the only soverign who's still alive after the ordeal with GranDracomon huh?" she thought as he spoke.
"Welcome digidestined, I am honored that you would come here." said Azulongmon his voice showing both age and much wisdom behind it.
"Uh sir, the reason we're here is to make sure none of your digicores were taken by the bad guys and..." he stopped when laughing was heard causing them to turn around, there stood the two skulldigimon.
"Good thing that no digimon can sense us coming, or we would've had to get rough on the stairs." said SkullMummymon, Azulongmon glared.
"Did you humans lead them here?" to his suprise SkullVermillionmon laughed.
"As if we'd follow pety humans, we're taking one of your damn digicores and there's nothing you can do about it!" he yelled out, Maki took out a digivolving card and willed it to become blue before sliding it through his digivice.
"Digi-modify! Matrix Digivolution activate!" he yelled out, Coronamon began glowing.
"Coronamon Warp Digivolve too..." his body grew into his Ulitmate form. "Flaremon!"
"Lunamon, you ready?" asked Kasumi, Lunamon nodded as the Crest of Passion shined causing Lunamon to glow.
"Lunamon warp digivolve too...Crescemon!" yelled the new digimon, Mikato and Shizuka nodded as thier partners immediantly went into thier champion forms before they held thier D3's in the sky together.
"Liamon..." started Liamon as he glowed brightly.
"...Grizzlymon." finished Grizzlymon as he glowed as well.
"DNA digivolve too...GrapLeomon!" both shouted and with that the three Ultimates stared down the two Skull Digimon.
"Four against two huh?" asked SkullVermillionmon.
"Then it's a fair fight." said SkullMummymon as he pointed his blaster at them. "Cyber Snake Bandage!" he yelled letting loose a dark ghastly blast from his gun that caused the three Ultimates to dodge. "Oh come on, don't be pussy's and take it like men!" he yelled out.
"I'm a girl you know!" Crescemon yelled back as thier partners hid behind a pillar for safety.
"Don't start with the semantic's!" yelled SkullMummymon as he unleashed another blast at her, Crescemon held up her sheild and was able to deflect the shot but was pushed back by it into one of the chamber walls.
"Crescemon!" yelled out Kasumi concerned as GrapLeomon ran at SkullMummymon
"Enough, Fist of the King!" he yelled with his dual voice as his turbine's spun with furry, but despite punching the digimon in the stomuch he was hardly phazed.
"For a DNA digimon is that all you've got!" asked SkullMummymon before kicking him back and knocking him to the ground. "Too ea..." he was cut off when a blinding flash beam of light crashed into his back. "Hey who did that!" he turned and saw Azulongmon was responsible.
"Leave my domain now! Aurora Force!" he yelled again, only SkullVermillionmon got in the way.
"Steel Protection!" he yelled, his body glowed with a metallic sheen and the attack bounced off hitting various in the room. "Even your attacks don't hurt that much old man!" he yelled.
"I'm guessing your attacks must suck then." said Flaremon, SkullVermillionmon turned to him. "I've heard of your kind, an Ultimate form of Monochromon, you guys have tons of defense, but almost no offense capabilities and are slower than a..." SkullVermillionmon growled deeply cutting him off.
"Funny considering you haven't attacked either you poor excuse of a fire digimon!" he yelled charging at him, but Flaremon was easily able to dodge, only to get shot by SkullMummymon's blaster again. "Hey I was gonna kill that prick!" he yelled.
"He's got one thing right, your fat ass is way to slow." said SkullMummymon with a chuckle.
"Why you..." before SkullVermillionmon could continue a battle cry was heard.
"Giga Destroyer!" came a yell, one of the chamber walls blew off and MetalGreymon with Grey flew inside. "So Megidramon was right...Guess Ken's not all gung ho after all" he muttered as his digimon landed and he looked up at Azulongmon. "You holding up ok keeper of knowledge." Azulongmon narrowed one of his eyes at this statement.
"Who is this, and why does he refer to me as if he knows who I am...wait a second I sense some of my energies around his body, but i've never met him before." thought Azulongmon as Grey turned to the two skulldigimon and then saw the other ultimates recovering.
"Guess I should've evened the groups out abit more, Ken's got things covered back at the hazard zone so i'll help you guys here." he said holding up his digivice. "Deckerdramon realise!" upon hearing the name SkullMummymon's eyes went wide.
"Your joking...right!" obviously Grey was not as a large aligator like digimon with several missile launchers on his back appeared. "Oh damn..." was all SkullMummymon could say.
Deckerdramon: a legendary digimon said to be undefeated in solo combat, and is the bane of all flying digimon with his infinite supply of missiles he fires with his deckadra launchers.
"How come you freaking out all of a sudden!" asked SkullVermillionmon, but when both digimon unleashed thier attacks his eyes widened. "Crap, Steel Defense!" SkullMummymon had to duck behind him as they were bombarded by several missiles and plasma shots, the armor on SkullVermillionmon's back started to crack.
"Oh ho, seems your defense is overated." said Flaremon as he prepared to attack, but Grey stopped him.
"Let me do this first." Digixross!" he yelled out, the two digimon present combined and now MetalGreymon had a tank like body complete with a millitary rifle ."Meet DeckerGreymon!"
DeckerGreymon:another unkown digimon who's power is destructive, almost on par with that of a BlackWarGreymon, he even uses BlackWarGreymon's Terra Destroyer with more power.
"A Digixros! That must mean this man came form another world as the legendary Xros Loaders have not made it here yet!" thought Azulongmon, both of the Skull Digimon were now freaking.
"What do we do now?" asked SkullVermillionmon, SkullMummymon sighed and looked around, all of the digimon in the room were preparing for a massive assult excluding Azulongmon, and had begun to surround them. However he then saw his window of hope when he noticed the hole that Grey had punctured to get inside was slowly reclosing but was open just enough to leap through, he nodded.
"I'm sorry dude, but I REGRET NOTHING!" he yelled as he lept into the air quickly and extended a part of his body wrapping towards one of the cores. "Dark Wrapper!" he yelled out as he grabbed the core, landed and did a barrel roll before leaping out the opening in the wall which closed right as Flaremon and Crescemon lept to stop him, as he fell from the tower he saw a cliff face and quickly sent out another dark wrapper to the cliff and swung like tarzan to the cliff path. "Oh yeah the boss will be pleased." he said before running off. "So long SkullVermillionmon." he said as he ran. "You will not be missed."
"Oh no!" said Flaremon.
"He got the core!" yelled Crescemon Grey growled.
"Ok then..." he said turning to SkullVermillionmon who was sweating bullets while gritting his teeth. "You, better come clean and tell us what your boss is planning on doing with the digicores, if you don't then that nick on your armor will only be scratching the surface of what we will do to you." SkullVermillionmon however began glowing.
"Is he going to do the Armor thing that the spider used?" asked Maki, however SkullVermillionmon shook his head.
"No, i'm going to blow myself up and take you all with me!" he yelled as his body glowed brighter.
"Not on my watch!" yelled Flaremon who summoned his fire lion attack. "Guren Jūouha!"
"You won't hurt anyone!" yelled Crescemon as she formed her bow. "Ice Archery" she yelled unleashed several ice based arrows.
"Fist of the King!" yelled GrapLeomon adding in a compression of air energy, the three attacks began to push SkullVermillionmon towards the area that Skullmummymon had lept out of, to thier suprise it suddenly reopened and all looked up to see that Azulongmon had reopened the hole to dump the crazed digimon out.
"You won't get rid of me that easily!" yelled SkullVermillionmon who pressed on through the attacks as best he could before opening his mouth. "Firey..." however he never got the chance to finish his attack as DeckerGreymon pointed his gun at him.
"I don't think so, Plasma Deckerdra-Launcher!" he yelled unleashing a plasma blast from the gun which went right into SkullVermillionmon's mouth, he was sent flying outside into the sky by this with the other attacks, and soon enough an explosion occured that rocked the tower badly but soon stopped. "Psyco..." muttered DeckerGreymon before defusing back into MetalGreymon and Deckerdramon the latter of which was recalled into the Xros Loader.
"Is everyone alright?" asked Grey, the group nodded but all had looks of disapointment.
"Yeah we're fine but we failed to stop them from getting the core." said Mikato.
"It's alright...young humans." said Azulongmon after resealing the hole in the wall. "I still have plenty of other cores and so do the other dragons...though something is bothering me." he said looking down at Grey. "Who are you? You are not human and that digivice you use is a Xros Loader which is said to have the biggest potential out of all the digidestined digivices known. Where did you get it?" Grey sighed.
"I'm not from this world, I was sent here by some friends to stop an evil darkness from coming and..." suddenly Azulongmon's body twitched. "What's wrong?"
"It's as I feared, a digicore has been taken from the Hazard Zone as well." Grey narrowed his eyes.
"WHAT!" he yelled out. "But I left Ken in charge since his digimon had become a Mega and he and Megidramon both told me that they could handle things there!" he yelled out, this shocked the others.
"Wait a second? Vee has already reached the Mega level!" Crescemon asked with shock, Grey nodded. "Yes, I was suprised myself...but how could those two have..." Azulongmon spoke up again after a moment.
"According to Megidramon, SkullKimeramon was indeed dealt with and blasted out of the area, the other one however, SkullRapidmon got ahold of one of the cores and ran off with it. He is currently being pursued into the dominion of darkness by the digidestined known as Ken with his partner using a gift that Megidramon gave to the two of them..." Grey immediantly turned on his digivice and tapped a few buttons on it.
"Ken, come in Ken! Can you hear me!" after about five minutes of pure static it was apparent that there wasn't going to be any answer.
"I am afraid that any communications in that dominion are impossible..." said Azulongmon, Grey shook his head.
"How could I have been so stupid." he muttered before motioning for the others to follow him. "We need to go now." to thier suprise Azulongmon stopped them.
"I would advise against it." he said, someone contacted me and said that " a great trial awaits him, one that could save or doom us all.." Grey's eyes narrowed.
"Was it the same voice I heard?" he wondered before looking up. "Still, Ken's just one teen with a newly digivolved Mega, who knows what kind of chaos awaits him there we need to go retreive him." Azulongmon nodded.
"According to Megidramon who I am most suprised at his new humbled attitude, Ken said that he wishes for you all to train yourselves as he's going through with this test no matter what and would rather no one interferes." Grey sighed and shook his head.
"Ok fine, he wins." said Grey shocking the others.
"We can't just abandon him." said Kasumi.
"Serves him right." said Mikato which shocked her sister.
"Mikato! How can you be so cold, he's our teamate!" Mikato said nothing, Maki just frowned.
"Ken, I have no idea what your doing, but this is one thing you can't afford to fail." he thought as the group prepared to head out and train themselves for what was to come...
What has transpired at the Hazard Zone shall be revealed...what is this "Test" Ken must preform? Who is Ken and Veemon chasing into the enemy's encampment? find out next time.
Until next chapter, peace out readers.